This is what I kept thinking as well. In my experience big companies can't get things done and people fly under the radar all the time not doing anything.
100% agree and do the same. There's no way I'd let one of those things touch the network. That is insane for a techie and even scarier that normal people live that way.
Just did this. I am so much happier. As a lifelong Apple user, and side-quest Linux user the choice is a no-brainer nowadays. Desktop Linux is honestly great now. I love(d) Apple but Tahoe was the straw that broke the camel's back for me.
This sounds almost exactly like what happened to me. I was a runner and a happy overworker. I developed AFib at 38 years old after the pandemic. Studies show a 6–10x higher risk of developing AFib or other arrhythmias within a month of infection compared to baseline. It sucks. I feel for you dude.
I found JDBi[1] to be a really nice balance between ORM and raw SQL. It gives me the flexibility I need but takes care of a lot of the boilerplate. It's almost like a third category.
This was happening to us > 5 years ago. The FB crawlers were taking out our image serving system as we used the og:image thing. What we did was route FB crawler traffic to a separate Auto Scaling Group to keep our users happy while also getting the nice preview image on FB when our content was shared. I can't understate the volume of the FB requests, I can't remember the exact numbers now but it was insane.